Why online child exploitation is so hard to fight

As the recent Congressional hearing on online child sexual exploitation demonstrated, the manipulation and abuse perpetrated by bad actors against vulnerable teens on social and digital media platforms can be devastating. Consider a few high-profile cases:  A 54-year-old man reportedly targeted a 14-year-old girl on Instagram in December 2022, plying her with a gift card after she remarked in her own post that clothing was expensive. The man allegedly drugged and raped the teen mu